ok, hear me out
The standard reading has Hegel completing the secularization of metaphysics — religion sublated into philosophy, mysticism rationalized into the Logic, the Hermetic tradition embarrassingly outgrown. This is backwards. The triadic dialectic, the self-differentiating absolute, the Ungrund as substrate of self-positing spirit — this is theosophy in the medium of the concept. Hegel is the philosophical completion of the Hermetic project, not its refutation.But here’s what nobody pushes: if that’s right, why does the practical-initiatic dimension drop out? The magus operates. The Hegelian comprehends. Why is comprehension the terminus?The standard answer is that Hegel sublates magic into science — what the magus crudely attempted, philosophy now grasps adequately. Magic was a primitive form of the unity of mind and nature; philosophy is the developed form. The chair across the room remains immovable, but you understand why the apparent gap between your will and the chair was always already a moment of Geist’s self-externalization. Pax tibi.This is unsatisfying, and the reason is internal to Hegel. The system is developmental. Geist moves through stages, each sublating the prior. There is no argument that philosophical comprehension is the final stage — only the assertion, made by a Berlin professor in 1820 with obvious institutional incentives. If the identity of thought and being is real, comprehension is not the terminus but the threshold. To know the wall between mind and world is not metaphysically fundamental is to know it is in principle alterable. Capacity does not follow automatically from comprehension, but comprehension opens the door capacity walks through.The Idealists articulated the metaphysical structure but stopped at understanding. The Hermetic tradition preserved the practical ambition but lacked the critical apparatus. The genuine continuation of both is a post-Hegelian theurgy — spirit not merely contemplating its identity with nature but enacting it.The owl of Minerva flew at dusk. What flies at dawn?
Ancient Hegelians
>>25250013If only you enjoyed reading Hegel as much as you enjoyed writing about him
>>25250034i do
>>25249943The rational is the real and the real is the rational
>>25249943Bros, I read Marx’s critique of Hegel in his 1844 collected manuscripts and it was so low IQ it made seriously question if any marxists get Hegel.So I grabbed Kojeves lectures on the phenomenology right after, and the introduction alone showed this guy is taking the low IQ thesis and removing any last merits and changes it to baby food easy to munch drivel. Dude said eating bread is killing and everything is needs.Bros these guys are so dumb. Dont even get me started on the Frankfurt school kikes
>>25250013At dawn the sparrows chatter. Do you understand?
>>25251884no
Ok, go on...
>>25251821This sounds like a reply to a BAP tweet
>>25251821Kojeve being downgraded to literalist mongoloid status took too long, but it finally arrived in the past couple decades.
>>25250013>In The Image Of—>We not only will stand at the right hand of God in judgment with Him, we share in our creative and moral capacity in the act of creation by our very nature (Freedom)
>>25249943Hegelians give Hegel a bad name.They ignore the only aspects of his theology that had any actual philosophical value and run off with with the bullshit, expanding it into dysfunctional, genocidal systems that kill hundreds of millions for no gain.
>>25254571existential comics are gae. midwit entertainment.
>>25254571For me, a primal man - it only matters if his ideas are the truth of life or no - and even then it doesn't matter to me beyond a monthly attention, until I can profit from it (understand life or have a happy one) or/and destroy my enemies (jews and foul races).That is said, for every philosopher which ideas are not simplistic and require further understanding of not only language but the idealistic life itself.>Homo Hegelis
>>25254571>dysfunctional, genocidal systems that kill hundreds of millions for no gain.I didn't know colonialism, slavery, capitalism and fascism were rooted in Hegel
